| Title: | AN EFFICIENT MOBILE CONTROLLED AND NETWORK ASSISTED HANDOFF PROPOSAL FOR IEEE 802.11 NETWORKS |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9781860948534_0048 |
| Source: | INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD (pp 297-299)
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| Author(s): | M. THIRUMALA REDDY
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
SUKUMAR NANDI
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
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| Abstract: | The small coverage area of WLAN Access Points creates frequent hand-offs for mobile users. If the latency of these hand-offs is high, then the users of synchronous multimedia applications such as VoIP will experience excessive jitter. The dominating factor in WLAN hand-offs has been shown to be the discovery of the candidate set of next access points. In this paper, we describe a mobile controlled and network assisted handoff procedure. The proposed procedure reduces the probing time to almost negligible. It is well suited for QoS assistance, easily coexists with FMIP, has very less maintenance cost and doesn't need any changes to the existing hardware. |
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